Re: [PHP-WIN] anti-advocacy: Larry Seltzer, pcmag May'01 pub. From: JayAchTee (john.thompson <email protected>)
Date: 05/23/01

I just did Tools|Options and turned on my "Spell check before sending"
option!

Regards,

John Thompson

"Bradley Miller" <bradmiller <email protected>> wrote in message
news:3.0.3.32.20010510101438.00a06af0 <email protected>
> At 10:04 AM 5/10/01 -0500, Greg Brunet wrote:
> >Actually, one thing that I REALLY like about the newer VB development
> >environment is that it will automatically correct/adjust the case of your
> >variables/functions to match their definition. This allows me to define
> >them according to my naming convention, but not have to worry about
keeping
> >them straight in the code - the tool handles it for me & that's as it
should
> >be.
>
> Ok -- this too is not a flame, but just an opinion. I personally don't
> exactly like that much hand holding. It's like the "auto-correct"
features
> in MS products. Yea, it's great for productivity and that . . . but what
> reinforces the thought that you boo-boo'ed and didn't have to correct it?
> If I spell receive as "recieve" every time I type something . . . it's
> still not right in my mind . . . otherwise I wouldn't type it. When you
> don't have the crutch of the computer handy -- are you going to look like
a
> complete moron with all the "learned" typos that MS corrected for you?
> Tools should not instill bad practices and mask them for you. They are
> tools -- just that . . . they should enable you to work easier, but they
> shouldn't fix your work for you -- at least not automatically to where the
> conditioned response is "typos are good as long as the computer figures it
> out".
>
> -- Bradley Miller
>
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